upload the offline-bundle.zip file (which contains the driver, firmware or both) to a shared datastore simply using the datastore browser or to /tmp directory of the Esxi using the WinScp.

Enter Maintenance Mode for the Esxi host in question.

Run this command to install drivers using the offline bundle (this requires an absolute path):

esxcli software vib install –d /path/offline-bundle.zip

For example:esxcli software vib install –d /var/log/vmware/offline-bundle.zipNote: If
this command fails, unzip the file and try running the same command.
Use localcli instead of esxcli if the hostd is not responding. For
example

localcli software vib install –d /var/log/vmware/offline-bundle.zip

5. reboot.

6. Exit maintenance mode.

NOTES
If you don't give full path of the error then you will face the following error"MetadataDownloadError" reading:
Could not download from depot at zip:/var/log/vmware/*update
name*.zip?index.xml, skipping (('zip:/var/log/vmware/*update
name*.zip?index.xml', '', "Error extracting index.xml from
:/var/log/vmware/*update name*.zip: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/var/log/vmware/*update name*.zip?index.xml'"))
url = zip:/var/log/vmware/*update name*.zip?index.xml
Please refer to the log file for more details.solution: http://ambitech.blogspot.com/2012/06/esxi-5-patch-installation-fails-with.html?q=full+path+driver

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